Grad students
Current Ph.D. Students
LCS Ph.D. students come from a variety of backgrounds and are diverse in their interests and goals. Here is a list of our current students.
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Alaska Hults Degree: B.A., Ohio Wesleyan M.S., Penn State Advisor: Kathleen Collins Status: Candidate Interests: ESL teacher ed; sociocultural theory; dynamic assessment; critical disability theory; critical multiculturalism |
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Annette Gregerson Degree: B.A. Art History, San Jose State University M.Ed Curriculum & Instruction, Penn State Advisor: Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Status: Candidate Interests: literacy, young adult literature, aesthetics and ethics |
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George Vaites Degree: B.A. Elementary Ed, Shippensburg University M.Ed Reading, Shippensburg, University Advisor: Patrick Shannon Status: Comps Interests: education policy and adolescent literacy
Heidi Brush Degree: B.A., English & Media Studies, Penn State University M.A., English & Media Studies, Penn State University Advisor: Dan Hade; Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Status: Candidate Interests: oral narratives -- Indian and African Diaspora
Joy Faba-Meness Degree: B.A; M. S. Status: Candidate Interests: Native American children’s literature; History of American Indian residential schools |
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Judy Kingkaysone Degree: B.A. History, University of North Texas M.A history, UC Santa Barbara Advisor: Scott Metzger Status: Candidate Interests: background and environment inform teacher practices for college prep in low-income high schools; primary and secondary sources in the history classroom & inclusion of writing in history classes; standardized assessments; content and use of textbooks in history class |
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Julie Schappe Degree: M.Ed. Teaching & Curriculum, Penn State B.A. English Literature & Language, University of Michigan Advisor: Jeanine Staples Status: Dissertation Interests: adolescent literacy, place, and embodiment; facets of social practices and cultural beliefs entangle with meaning making across the places in adolescent lives. Also emergent methods for qualitative inquiry focus on responsive, participant-centered designs |
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Kortney Sherbine Degree: B.S. Psychology, Campbell University MAT Early Childhood Education, College of Charleston Advisor: Gail Boldt Status: Comps Interests: interrelationships of young children's bodies with the materials, ideas, and languages that are often perceived to be associated with fanaticism |
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Lance Mason Degree: Undergrad teacher education, University of Michigan Masters Social Foundation of Education, Eastern Michigan University Advisor: Scott Metzger Status: Dissertation Interests: Citizenship education, media literacy ed, John Dewey and pragmatism, political and social theory |
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Marie Elena Madonna Degree: B.S. English Education, Penn State M.Ed Curriculum & Instruction, Penn State Advisor: Patrick Shannon Status: Dissertation Interests: gender, class, politics of testing, educational policy |
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Michael Chesnut Degree: B.S., University of Manitoba-Winnipeg M.Ed., Woosong University Advisor: Kimberly Powell Status: Dissertation Interests: teacher development, TESOL, second language writing, anthropology of education |
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Michelle Knotts Degree: B.A. Speech Communications, Penn State M.Ed. Secondary Education, Northern Arizona Univ. Advisor: Kathleen Collins Status: Candidate Interests: teacher education and critical pedagogy |
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Nalova Westbrook Degree: Undergraduate, African-American Studies Graduate, Film-Video and Media Studies Advisor: Jeanine Staples and Patrick Shannon Status: Dissertation Interests: media literacy, pedagogy, teacher education, statistics |
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Nicole Olcese Degree: B.A. English and Journalism, University of North Carolina M.Ed. Curriculum and Instruction, Penn State Advisor: Jamie Myers Status: Comps Interests: preservice and induction phase teachers utilize online teacher social networks to engage in community supported activities like honing pedagogical beliefs
Paolo Infante
Degrees: BA Italian linguistics and literature, University of Toronto MA applied linguistics, University of Massachusetts Boston Advisor: Matthew Poehner Status: Candidate Interests: dynamic assessment in ESL education, sociocultural theory in second language pedagogy, & English language learner identity Holder of a Dean’s Graduate Assistantship |
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Ritam Dutta Degree: M.Ed. Comparative Literature, India Advisor: Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Status: Candidate Interests: young adult cultural practices, conversational storytelling, identity & formal learning |
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Roi Kawai Degree: B.S. Elementary Education, University of Illinois M.A. Educational Administration, Aurora University M.Ed School Leadership, Harvard Graduate School Advisor: Stephanie Serriere Status: Candidate Interests: civic education, civic engagement, student and teacher activism, urban school reform |
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Seunghee Jin Degree: B.A., Ewha Women’s University Advisor: Matthew Poehner Status: Candidate Interests: second/foreign language teaching and learning, second/foreign language learning strategies, technology-integrated language learning in second/foreign language classroom |
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Su Young Kang Degree: B.A. English Language and Literature, Jeju National Univ. M.A. Teaching English as a Second Language-Media Assisted Language, Woosong University Advisor: Jamie Myers Status: Candidate Interests: inquiry-based language learning, language policy, teacher education, critical discourse analysis
Xiru Du Degree: B.A., English M.A., English Studies, China; M.A, Asian Studies PSU Advisor: Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Interests: children’s literature; cultural studies; Chinese children’s literature/Childhood Studies; adapted stories; western influence on Chinese theories and literature; |
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Xu Xu Degree: B.A. English, Beijing International Studies University M.S. Curriculum & Instruction, Penn State Advisor: Gail Boldt Status: Dissertation Interests: children’s literature, cultural history of childhood, gender studies, nationalism studies |
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Yingchi Wu Degree: B.A., Wenzao Ursuline College of Foreign Languages M.Ed., Penn State Advisor: Daniel Hade Status: Dissertation Interests: children’s literature & new media studies
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